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The Abe administration is considering creating a framework through which Self-Defense Forces personnel would participate in international missions involving European Union troops, under an envisioned permanent law on overseas SDF ...6 hours ago

The education ministry will issue a notice to urge schools not to use “inappropriate” supplementary learning materials, reflecting recent cases of teachers using images released by the Islamic State militants ...9 mins ago

Gunma University Hospital acknowledges negligence in the deaths of eight patients following laparoscopic liver surgery, faulting its staff for failing to look into early deaths and a surgeon for falsifying ...14 hours ago

Wakayama plans to introduce an ordinance to restrict the sale of dangerous knives, following the fatal stabbing of an 11-year-old boy in the prefecture last month, Jiji Press learned Tuesday. ...1 hour ago

Hundreds of taxi drivers from Belgium and France brought central Brussels to a virtual standstill Tuesday with their vehicles in a protest targeting the Web-based taxi app Uber. Police said a go-slow procession of ...

Federal agents searched more than a dozen homes Tuesday in a crackdown on so-called maternity tourism operators who arrange for pregnant Chinese women to give birth in the U.S., where their babies automatically become ...

A Hong Kong-based investment fund said Monday it has bought a commercial building in Osaka’s downtown Dotonbori district and hopes to place it on the tourist trail for Asian visitors. The building has a ...

Conflicting reports emerged on Monday about the availability of possible surveillance footage showing the slaying of Boris Nemtsov, a fierce Kremlin critic gunned down in Moscow, as top Russian officials again promised that his ...

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Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami says he regrets that Hong Kong’s democracy protests did not bring the changes demanded by demonstrators, but their actions were not in vain. The writer made the remarks on Monday in his online agony uncle column, responding to a question ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Congress on Tuesday that negotiations underway between Iran and the United States would “all but guarantee” that Tehran would get nuclear weapons, a step he said the world must avoid at all costs. “Iran has proven time and ...

Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, one of the Tohoku locales that was seriously damaged by the 3/11 earthquake and tsunami four years ago, is among the 12 cities that will host the 2019 Rugby World Cup matches. On Monday, the host cities were decided in the ...

Some Swedish delicacies, such as lutefisk (dried cod treated with lye), attract comments that are less than flattering. And when I say less than flattering, I mean downright slanderous. “Reminiscent of the afterbirth of a dog, or the world’s largest chunk of phlegm,” is ...

It has been a year since post-hardcore group Fact released an artist photo with the six members’ faces revealed. Before then, the band always wore traditional Japanese noh masks. “We wanted our fans to listen to our music without having to care about how ...